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About the Seminar
In this powerful program, Tom Spahn, the author of A Practitioner’s Guide to the Attorney Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, will explore perhaps the most important legal doctrine all lawyers should understand -- the attorney client privilege.  This interactive and engaging seminar will also address the separate but related work product doctrine protection.  With both protections, the program will include up-to-date South Carolina case law.

If you are a litigator, represent businesses or government entities, estates, or serve as a fiduciary, this is special program offers you the opportunity to hear from perhaps the national authority on these challenging doctrines.

Seminar Agenda
-How to determine which attorney-client privilege and work product law will apply
-Clients' misunderstanding of the privilege's applicability, and the key legal advice component
-Privilege protection in the corporate setting (including the danger of widespread intra-corporate communications)
-Sources of proof courts examine in analyzing privilege protection, and practical steps for maximizing the protection
-Basic work product principles (including the "litigation," "anticipation," and "motivation" elements)
-Identifying who is outside privilege protection, including clients' and lawyers' agent/consultants
-Privilege waiver (including implied, "at issue”, and subject matter waivers)
-Joint defense/common interest agreements (highlighting their unpredictability)
-Work product waiver
-Privilege and work product issues arising before, during, and after internal corporate investigations

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 3.0 MCLE credit hours, including up to 3.0 LEPR credit hours.

 This seminar is an Intermediate Level Program.
 

Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2024, please use this course code: 241144ADO.
 

 Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2025, please use this course code: 

Tags Litigation/Trial Practice; Ethics/Professional Responsibility; Big Ticket